SB2018060725 - Cross-site request forgery in MULTIDOTS Add Social Share Messenger Buttons Whatsapp and Viber for WordPress

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SB2018060725 - Cross-site request forgery in MULTIDOTS Add Social Share Messenger Buttons Whatsapp and Viber for WordPress

Published: June 7, 2018 Updated: October 15, 2019

Security Bulletin ID SB2018060725
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Data manipulation

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Cross-site request forgery (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-11632)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site request forgery attacks.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of the HTTP request origin. A remote attacker can trick the victim to visit a specially crafted web page and perform arbitrary actions on behalf of the victim on the vulnerable website, such as be tricked into visiting a crafted URL created by an attacker (via spear phishing/social engineering), the attacker can change the plugin settings via wp-admin/admin-post.php CSRF. There's no nonce or capability check in the whatsapp_share_setting_add_update() function.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.

References